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The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace

By Linda Granfield
Illustrated by Brian Deines

• Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2019
• Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2018
• Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2018
• Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Express Award, 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017

Exo

By Fonda Lee

• Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
• Short-listed, OLA White Pine Award, Fiction, 2018
• Nominated, Prix Aurora Awards, 2018
• Nominated, Andrew Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book, 2017
• Commended, ALA Notable , Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018
• Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2017

Mine!

By Natalie Hyde

• Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2018

Underneath the Sidewalk

By Claire Eamer
Illustrated by Thomas Gibault

• Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children's Choice), 2019
• Short-listed, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2018

The Winnowing

By Vikki VanSickle

• Winner, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2018
• Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
• Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018

Bounced

By Ted Staunton

• Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017

Restart

By Gordon Korman

• Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
• Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2018
• Commended, Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year , 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017

The Way Back Home

By Allan Stratton

• Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
• Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2018
• Short-listed, Governor General's Award, Young People's Literature - Text, 2017
• Nominated, Carnegie Medal, UK, 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017

The Heart's Song

By Gilles Tibo
Illustrated by Irene Luxbacher

• Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018

Amazing Hockey Stories: Connor McDavid

By Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Illustrated by D A Bishop

• Nominated, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2018

Summer's End

By Joel A Sutherland

• Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2018
• Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017

Braids!

By Robert Munsch
Illustrated by Dave Whamond

• Winner, Rainforest of Reading Award, 2018
• Winner, Reuben Award for Best Illustrated Book, National Cartoonists Society, 2017
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017

Picture the Sky

By Barbara Reid

• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018
• Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2017

I Am Canada: A Celebration

By Heather Patterson
Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Illustrated by Barbara Reid
Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Illustrated by Danielle Daniel
Illustrated by Geneviève Côté
Illustrated by Ashley Spires
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Illustrated by Jeremy Tankard

• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
• Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2017

Dear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens

By Ruby Slipperjack

• Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2018
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
• Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2017
• Commended, CBC Best Books of the Year, 2016

Happy Dreamer

By Peter H Reynolds

• Nominated, Rainforest of Reading Award, 2018
• Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2018

Icarus Down

By James Bow

• Winner, Prix Aurora Awards, 2017
• Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2017
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
• Commended, CBC Children's Book Panel Recommendation, 2016

Good Morning, Canada

By Andrea Lynn Beck

• Commended, TD Grade One Giveaway Book, 2017
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015

Haunted Canada 5: Terrifying True Stories

By Joel A Sutherland

• Winner, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2016
• Winner, OLA Silver Birch Award, Non-Fiction, 2016
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016

The Dogs

By Allan Stratton

• Winner, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2017
• Winner, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2016
• Winner, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2016
• Short-listed, IODE Canada Violet Downey Award, 2016
• Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2016
• Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2015
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
• Commended, Quill & Quire, Books of the Year, 2015
• Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2015

The Princess and the Pony

By Kate Beaton

• Winner, CBC Children's Choice Book Award, Illustrator of the Year, 2016
• Short-listed, Joan Betty Stuchner – Oy Vey! – Funniest Children’s Book Award, 2017
• Short-listed, The Globe and Mail, Best Books of the Year, 2015
• Commended, Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the Year, 2015
• Commended, Quill & Quire, Books of the Year, 2015
• Commended, Kirkus Best Books, 2015
• Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2015
• Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2015

Haggis and Tank Unleashed #2: Digging for Dinos: A Branches Book

By Jessica Young
Illustrated by James Burks

• Short-listed, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2017

Bittersweet

By Winnie Mack

• Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2017

Hand in Hand

By Jean Little

• Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2017

Haunted Canada 6: More Terrifying True Stories

By Joel A Sutherland

• Winner, OLA Silver Birch Award, Non-Fiction, 2017
• Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2018

King Baby

By Kate Beaton

• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
• Commended, CBC Holiday Gift Guide Selection, 2016
• Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2016
• Commended, Today's Parent 25 Best Kids’ Books of the Year, 2016
• Commended, Globe 100: The 100 Best Books of the Year, 2016
• Commended, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, Picture Books, 2016

Slacker

By Gordon Korman

• Short-listed, Cybils (Children's and Young Adults Bloggers' Literary Awards), Middle-Grade Fiction, 2016
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016
• Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2016

The Story of Canada

By Janet Lunn
By Christopher Moore
Illustrated by Alan Daniel

• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
• Commended, CBC Children's Book Panel Recommendation, 2016

An Inheritance of Ashes

By Leah Bobet

• Winner, Copper Cylinder Award, 2016
• Winner, Sunburst Award, Young Adult category, 2016
• Winner, Prix Aurora Awards, 2016
• Short-listed, Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, 2016
• Short-listed, Cybils (Children's and Young Adults Bloggers' Literary Awards), Young Adult Speculative Fiction, 2015
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016
• Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2015

Young Man With Camera

By Emil Sher
Photographs by David Wyman

• Winner, Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, 2016
• Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2016
• Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2016
• Short-listed, Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, 2016
• Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2016
• Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Children's Literature - Text, 2015
• Runner-up, Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children, 2016
• Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2016
• Commended, White Ravens Selection (International Youth Library), 2016